Gieleroth

Gieleroth is a municipality in the district of Old Churches ( Westerwald) in Rhineland- Palatinate. It belongs to the municipality Old churches.

• 2.1 documents
• 2.2 Prehistory and Early History
• 2.3 Reformation
• 2.4 The Herzburg
• 2.5 coaching Gieleroth
• 2.6 School Gieleroth
• 2.7 Mining
• 2.8 Forest prospective properties
• 2.9 Community Facilities
• 2:10 Territorial accessory
• 2:11 Population Development

• 3.1 municipal
• 3.2 Mayors since 1939
• 3.3 Coat of Arms

• 5.1 Our village is beautiful
• 5.2 Ortsnecknamen

Geography

Geographical location

Gieleroth located a few kilometers south-east of the Old Church on the main road 8 in the direction Wahlrod.

In the municipality there are several sources of Almer Bach.

Community structure

Districts are Gieleroth, Amteroth and Herpteroth.

Climate

The annual rainfall is 1023 mm. Rainfall is high. They are located in the upper quarter of the detected values ​​in Germany. At 86% of the stations of the German Weather Service lower values ​​are registered. The driest month is February, the most rainfall comes in December. In December, falling 1.5 times more rainfall than in February. Precipitation varies moderately. At 39% of the monitoring stations, lower seasonal swings are recorded.

History

Papers

The places Gieleroth ( Geilnderode, Gelenterode ) and Herpteroth ( Herbeterode, Herpenterode ) were first mentioned in a document of the parish court to Almersbach ( Almerßbach ) from the year 1408. The parish Almersbach belonged at the time to the County of Wied ( Wedekind ). 1428, the Cistercian Monastery Marienstatt a farm in Gieleroth. Amteroth ( Ampteroede ) is occupied for the first time in book donations Church of Our Lady of Hilgenroth from 1464.

Prehistory and Early History

In the name of three places in the clearing name is recognizable, the clearing places in the Westerwald have emerged in the period from the 9th to the 14th century. The recognized regional researchers Hellmuth Gensicke counts Gieleroth to the older grubbing places. The situation on the old " High Road" from Cologne to Frankfurt suggests an early settlement. The name suffix - red ( = -rod ) could be derived at Gieleroth even from the Celtic word Road ( Highway ).

Reformation

The parish Almersbach belonged since the 16th century to the County of Sayn. In 1561 Count Henry IV laid zu Sayn last will and testament, that should be " no other religion, doctrine and faith, the Augsburg Confession alone is understood " and will be introduced in the country. Under Count William III. the confession of the Lutheran to the Reformed ( Calvinist ) doctrine changed in 1605 to finally Countess Louise Juliane 1636 the Lutheran doctrine allowed again. Since that time there were in the parish Almersbach a Reformed and a Lutheran church with two priests. 1820, the two Protestant confessions to United Church were pooled.

The Herzburg

Northeast of Gieleroth, on the border with Ingelbach, the Herzberg is (325 m above sea level. NN ). There was the "heart castle " called castle which may exist as Fliehburg already in prehistoric times. In the Tranchot - Müffling card of 1818/19 this was listed as " The Harzburg ". A still -preserved section of Wall is registered as a floor monument.

Coaching Gieleroth

Since the end of the 17th century in Gieleroth was lying on the Cologne - Frankfurt line Imperial Imperial post office and horse -changing station. The post office was located in the " Reinhardshof ", this stands as a cultural monument historical monument. In 1771 the post office was moved to Wahlrod. The name Reinhardshof he received later. In 1990, the restaurant business was, most recently " potions to " abandoned as a restaurant. The lying near "Post Pond " is set in 1986 as "Protected landscape component" under protection. It is believed that it existed at the time of the first documentary mention.

School Gieleroth

In 1854, first a " school community " for the three villages was established in Herpteroth. In the time was school on a monthly basis in the homes of the parents of the students instead. 1859 then a community schoolhouse was built in Gieleroth. From 1872, the school was placed under state supervision, before the supervision was perceived by the Superintendent. The teacher changed frequently, 1890 was a renovation of the school. In the first half of the 20th century, always 60 to 70 students were taught in a classroom. During the Second World War, soldiers were billeted in the school at times. 1957 a new school was built, it had now held a two classrooms. Mid-1973 the elementary school was closed in Gieleroth, since the children are taught in old churches. In the school building, a kindergarten was established.

Mining

In the area of ​​today's local church, there were from the second half of the 19th century, a total of 17 mine fields. Individual pits existed before 1830. Mined was mainly iron, besides also lead, copper, zinc and silver, the mines belonged to the mining district of Hamm. In the 1910s, mining was stopped. Furthermore, there were slate quarries.

Forest prospective properties

A forest prospective shaft is a special form of a cooperative, in which originally all partners have equal shares in the total forest owned by the cooperative. Originated in the 18th century they are in the counties of Sayn- ​​old churches and Sayn- ​​Hachenburg. The Cooperative Forest of Amteroth with an area of ​​68 hectares was allocated to the then twelve houses of the village. The shares were bounded to the house and were heritable and were transferred to a new homeowner. Later, the shares have been halved, so that a proportion equivalent to a twenty-fourth, and the binding to the house was abandoned. The forest prospective stem Amteroth still exists today, the cooperative forest has an area of ​​52 hectares.

The forest prospective stem Gieleroth still exists today. It has a forest ownership of 29 hectares and is divided into 18 shares. The forest prospective stem Herpteroth existed until 1911, she had a community forest ownership of 47 acres and 18 members. The forest in 1911 was sold to the state.

Community Facilities

Eleven Amterother farmers decided in 1949, together to create a powerful thresher. They called themselves " Dreschgemeinschaft Amteroth ". 1950 was built for this thresher a hall for special occasions and for other purposes, such Celebrations was used. The Dreschgemeinschaft existed until 1970. After a meantime other use, the hall was renovated in 1987 by the local community and has since then served as a community center for the district Amteroth. The crossed flail in the emblem symbolize the district Amteroth and Community Dreschhalle.

Also Herpteroth had from 1959 a Dreschhalle and a communal threshing machine.

The well house in Herpteroth was built in the early 1990s. The name has it, because at this point was formerly a village well. It was built of natural stone in the basement and half-timbering on the upper floor. It serves the district Herpteroth village hall.

The Backes in Herpteroth were built after the First World War and served the village some fifty years as a " community oven ". In the early 1990s, the building and the old oven was extensively renovated and is used at village festivals again.

In 1955, built 22 prospects in Herpteroth together a wash-house, which was used according to a fixed schedule. Aside from a one-off payment to participate and the water and electricity was free money to use for participants in the community of interest.

The village community center in the district Gieleroth was built in 1994. One of the reasons was the closure of the Gastronomiebertiebs in the historic Reinhardshof.

Territorial accessory

By 1803 the three villages belonged to the county of Sayn- ​​old churches, regional office for saynischen Allmersbach and Parish Allmersbach. After Reichsdeputationshauptschluss Sayn- ​​old churches came to Nassau- Usingen, 1806 to the Duchy of Nassau and 1815, according to the Acts of the Congress of Vienna to the Kingdom of Prussia. East of Gieleroth and Herpteroth ran from 1815 to 1866, the border between Prussia and the Duchy of Nassau. The neighboring Borod already belonged to Nassau. Individual boundary stones marked " KP" ( Kingdom of Prussia ) and " HN " ( Duchy of Nassau ) are still preserved. Today it is the boundary between the district of old churches and the Westerwald region.

Amteroth, Gieleroth and Herpteroth were independent rural communities under Prussia and belonged to the mayor's Old Churches, which was assigned in 1816 to the then newly created district of Old Churches in the Region of Koblenz. The municipality Gieleroth a part of the hamlet Aries stone was still part (south of Wied). This structure remained until 1939. On April 1, 1939, the three municipalities were merged to form community Gieleroth. In 1946, the then newly Gieleroth state of Rhineland -Palatinate.

Demographics

In 1582 Amteroth included eleven " smokes " (households or families), Gieleroth ( Gelenroth ) four smokes and Herpteroth ( Herperode ) 15 smokes. Since 1817, more accurate population figures are available, the year had Amteroth 65, 82 and Gieleroth Herpteroth 113 inhabitants. In 2007, the population was in the districts Amteroth 158 Gieleroth 390 and 153 Herpteroth

The development of the population based on the present-day municipality of Gieleroth; the values ​​from 1871 to 1987 based on population censuses:

Policy

Parish council

The local council in Gieleroth consists of twelve council members, who were elected at the municipal election held on 7 June 2009 of personalized proportional representation, and the honorary mayor as chairman location. The twelve seats in the City Council are distributed among three groups of voters.

Mayor since 1939

Since the merger in 1939 were or are in Gieleroth following mayor ( since 1946, under the official title of mayor ) in the Office:

Coat of arms

The coat of arms description reads: " The coat of arms is divided by a blue bar with a silver wattle, top is in gold a red Posthorn, topped with a silver horse's head, below the coat of arms is cleaved by a bent- tip, right and left are green slopes with each a golden oak leaf, the middle is a golden field with crossed red flails. "

The three bands symbolize the three districts and the formerly independent communities Gieleroth, Herpteroth and Amteroth. The blue color of the bar represents the headwaters of the creek Almer in the district. Each of the three districts is represented by its own icon in the coat of arms: the post horn with the horse head points to the former coaching inn is in Gieleroth, red and gold are the colors of the county of Sayn, to which the village belonged until 1803; the oak leaves stand for Herpteroth and a former ravine; The crossed flail on gold stand for Amteroth and for the former threshing barn.

Attractions

• The lying in the forest between Oberwambach, Almersbach and Amteroth " Rough Stone ", about the place of sacrifice from the prehistoric to Christian interpretations of all sorts of stories to be told.

See also:

• List of cultural monuments in Gieleroth

Others

Our village is beautiful

The two districts Amteroth and Herpteroth took from 1973 until the 1990s, more than once during the state competition Our village is beautiful in part. Here, some placements were achieved at the district level. At the state level Amteroth in 1995 awarded the silver medal and a special prize for "exemplary environmental services". Herpteroth was able to prove in 1993 to sixth place in the main class.

Ortsnecknamen

The three districts have among themselves and in the neighboring villages Ortsnecknamen:

• The inhabitants of Amteroth ( " Amdert " ), dialect the " Amder ", " Quötschebüch " ( plums bellies ) are called, because there are many orchards and plum trees there and it is assumed the population, that they eat these plums in abundance.
• The inhabitants of Gieleroth ( " Gillert " ), dialect the " Gillerder ", are called " scoffers " because in 1830 the Herpterother were raised by the Gielerothern because of their many children.
• The inhabitants of Herpteroth ( " Hertptert " ), dialect the " Herpter " will, " Säuköttelspetzer " ( Schweinekotspitzer ) because they like about unnecessary matters, in the sense of "on the top drive ", arguing.